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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Australia	Netherlands
Dec 31, 1999	273	18,692	15,817
Dec 31, 2000	274	18,907	15,932
Dec 31, 2001	275	19,151	16,052
Dec 31, 2002	276	19,371	16,155
Dec 31, 2003	278	19,595	16,231
Dec 31, 2004	279	19,805	16,288
Dec 31, 2005	280	20,048	16,326
Dec 31, 2006	281	20,320	16,352
Dec 31, 2007	282	20,694	16,388
Dec 31, 2008	283	21,113	16,452
Dec 31, 2009	285	21,553	16,536
Dec 31, 2010	286	21,891	16,621
Dec 31, 2011	287	22,197	16,699
Dec 31, 2012	288	22,588	16,761
Dec 31, 2013	289	22,980	16,810
Dec 31, 2014	290	23,326	16,871
Dec 31, 2015	291	23,664	16,946
Dec 31, 2016	291	24,036	17,036
Dec 31, 2017	292	24,445	17,137
Dec 31, 2018	293	24,823	17,238
Dec 31, 2019	294	25,204	17,351
Dec 31, 2020	294	25,529	17,448
Dec 31, 2021	295	25,574	17,539
Dec 31, 2022	295	25,826	17,709

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Australia

1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.

Netherlands

1348–1807 (Holland): Van Zanden, J. L. and van Leeuwen, B. (2012), ‘Persistent but not consistent: the growth of national income in Holland 1347–1807’, Explorations in Economic History, 49 (2012), pp. 119–30.
1807-1913: Smits, J.P., E. Horlings and J.L. van Zanden (2000). The Measurement of Gross National Product and its Components 1800-1913 (Groningen Growth and Development Centre Monograph series no 5).
1913-1950: C.A. van Bochove and T.A. Huitker, "Main National Accounting Series, 1900-1986", CBS Occasional Paper, No. 17, The Hague, 1987.

No separate list is published for Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.